How to Help a Friend in Need

Crystal Brown-Tatum, 39, of Blanchard, Louisiana, was terrified when she
was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer in 2007. "I knew that chemo
would be the next step, but I was too scared to do it," she says. "I
envisioned myself frail, bald and throwing up all the time." Feeling
low, Brown-Tatum called her friend Tarsha, and they talked for three
hours. Tarsha encouraged her to "fully embrace the experience" and
eventually talked her into undergoing treatment. "Her support gave me
the courage to do chemo — and most likely saved my life," says
Brown-Tatum, who is cancer-free today...